Chapter 265: 264: Telling Ji Baili About Xin Zaozao’s Harsh Past

Translator: 549690339

The Jazz Coffee Shop.

In a private room, Mu Cidian was sitting.

In front of him was a floor-to-ceiling window, and outside was Jin City’S Moat.

The afternoon sun was still blindingly brilliant, sporadic sunlight scattered on the water, crystal-clear and sparkling.

It was supposed to be a bright day, a day blessed by others.

Yet, because of him, it had turned into this.

He turned his head and watched as the door was pushed open.

Ji Baili entered.

So…

Ji Baili really loved Xin Zaozao.

Knowing this much was enough.

He rose to his feet and walked towards Ji Baili.

Just as he walked over…

“Bang.” Ji Baili’s fist landed hard on Mu Cidian’s face.

wincing in pain, Mu Cidian involuntarily stumbled back.

Ji Baili rubbed his own fist and said fiercely, “Mu Cidian, didn’t I tell you that I’ve learned Taekwondo and Sanshou, and I’ve been practicing it for many years!” As soon as he finished speaking, the next second!

A flurry of fists mercilessly rained down on Mu Cidian.

Mu Cidian didn’t resist, he just continued to endure Ji Baili’s attack, until…

Ji Baili got tired of beating him.

Ji Baili sat down on a nearby chair, gasping for breath.

Mu Cidian leaned against the wall, also panting.

As he gasped for breath, his brows were tightly knitted, concealing the pain in his body.

Ji Baili glared at Mu Cidian.

His punches definitely weren’t light.

But he didn’t expect that Mu Cidian wouldn’t resist at all.

Even though he knew that he could beat Mu Cidian, he never thought that he’d let himself be beaten this badly.

But he wouldn’t go soft just because of this.

He said• , “Mu Cidian, what do you want to say?”

Not sure if he was adjusting his breath or controlling his body from shaking, he leaned against the wall for a long time before finally coming over and sitting down in front of Ji Baili, straightening his body.

Ji Baili raised his eyebrows.

He didn’t believe that his fist didn’t hurt him, but he still forced himself to maintain the same level of speech with him.

He looked coldly at Mu Cidian.

Then he heard him say, “About Xin Zaozao, something that happened when she was young.”

Ji Baili’s expression changed slightly.

Before he could respond, Mu Cidian had already started speaking on his own.

“My mother, Wang Quan, and Xin Zaozao’s father, Xin He, are from a blended family. Before I came to the Xin family, I had a very warm little home. Later on, my father committed suicide by jumping off a building due to poor management of the company, and my mother and I depended on each other. Not long after, my mother married Xin He. Xin He was the primary culprit in buying out our family business, my mother married Xin He purely for revenge, to take the Xin Group from Xin He’s hands, to exact revenge.”

“When my mother brought me into the Xin family, I met Xin Zaozao. She was very young with a pinkish face, she was afraid of strangers, but when she saw my mother and me for the first time, I

saw the delight in her eyes. However, this delight gradually faded as we started living together. My mother despised her, because she couldn’t do anything to Xin He so she always took her anger out on her. For a long time, she was scared of my mother, but because she cared for her father so much she never dared to tell anyone, she was afraid that once she spoke up, her father’s last bit of father-daughter love for her would be gone!” Mu Cidian spoke with a calm expression.

However, his clenched fists revealed the storm brewing within him.

He knew very well that Xin Zaozao had always yearned for parental love, had always yearned for a complete family, she had been suppressing her feelings out of fear that her father would dislike her even more, that her father would distance himself from her even more.

That’s why when her father passed away, she reacted so strongly.

She felt as if her world had collapsed. In her eyes, her father was her only relative, no matter how this relative treated her, that was her bottom line in life. Ji Baili sat across from Mu Cidian, watching him.

Seeing his seemingly unemotional pause.

After a moment’s pause, he said, “As a result, my mother’s torment of her increased with each passing day. And the biggest torment wasn’t from my mother’s secret beatings and abuse of her, but from my deception towards her. My mother asked me to pretend to be nice to Xin Zaozao, to pretend to like Xin Zaozao, letting Xin Zaozao believe that I loved her. And my mother’s actions were merely a selfish way to vent her frustrations and suppressions!”

“Xin Zaozao was easily deceived, she easily fell into the trap because she had received too little love before. All I did was help her with her homework, read with her before bed, occasionally give her a piece of candy, occasionally give her a small cake, she innocently believed that I was the best person in the world, she placed all her trust in me, she listened to everything I…” As he spoke to this point, Mu Cidian’s voice became somewhat hoarse.

Upon hearing this, Ji Baili’s fists clenched tightly once again.

“And on the morning of her 18th birthday, she heard my conversation with my mother, she heard me tell her clearly that all my kindness to her was just to toy with her, that I did not love her.” Mu Cidian said, clearly telling Ji Baili, “This was my mother’s plot, she said she wanted all the people with the surname ‘Xin’, to suffer, to pay the price! She wanted Xin He’s only daughter to feel the pain of falling from the heavens, just like their family’s happiness back then, suffered a sudden change out of the blue!”

Ji Baili could imagine just how painful and heartbroken Xin Zaozao must have been back then.

No wonder she said that after experiencing Mu Cidian, she would never fall in love with anyone again!

Turns out…

She was really hurt by Mu Cidian and his mother, and it was far worse.

His heart ached a bit.

Xin Zaozao had a past that was worse than he could have imagined!

“Afterwards. After all the truths were revealed, I still didn’t let go of Xin Zaozao. I wouldn’t treat her well or have any feelings for her anymore, and she knew this clearly, but she never resisted. Maybe she never resisted from a young age. She only knew how to silently endure, although it was always so painful, she remained silent.” Mu Cidian could imagine Xin Zaozao’s look back then, always so pale.

His throat was constantly fluctuating as if he was trying to suppress his emotions.

Ji Baili’s face was extremely ugly.

He felt that his punch just now was really light, at this moment, he really wanted to kill Mu Cidian.

In this world, how could anyone be so cruel to Xin Zaozao, how could they bear to do this to her!

He glared at Mu Cidian, gritted his teeth and said, “Xin Zaozao once had a miscarriage for you!”

“I know.” Mu Cidian said, his eyes were somewhat red. “Just once. Because that day, I confirmed my engagement with Wu Qianyuan.” Ji Baili’s eyebrows were tightly wrinkled.

This damn man!

Mu Cidian continued, “In order to have a firmer footing in the business world and to have a stronger voice, even the right to dominate in Xin Group, I needed to win over other directors, so I needed to marry someone who would be more beneficial to me. On the day I confirmed my engagement with Wu Qianyuan, I got drunk. I knew that my drunkenness wasn’t because of happiness, but because I knew my relationship with Xin Zaozao was about to end soon. But I didn’t expect that she would become pregnant.”

“Nor did I expect that, when I had no idea, she went to the hospital alone, a lonely person to abort that little life.” Mu Cidian’s eyes were red.

He suddenly lowered his head.

Both hands supported on his forehead, blocking his face.

Ji Baili was very angry.

He was so angry that his body was trembling.

People like Mu Cidian don’t deserve sympathy even if they die ten thousand times.

After a while.

Mu Cidian raised his head, during that short moment, he regained his usual icy calm.

Ji Baili was rather discontented.

His emotional fluctuation lasted only a few minutes, yet it was the most painful life experience for Xin Zaozao.

Mu Cidian said, “From then on, I never touched Xin Zaozao again. Because I was engaged… I was afraid that I would be infatuated, I was afraid that because of her, I would delay my mother’s revenge, so I forced myself to have no more relations with Xin Zaozao, I forced myself to forget Xin Zaozao. She was also very smart, she endured for so many years, found the most appropriate opportunity, and left the Xin family.”

“I thought, when you leave, you leave. From then on, she never had to return to this twisted family of the Xin’S, she could live her life, and I didn’t want to see her again, I wanted to live my own life. Everything was going smoothly, but due to the sudden death of Xin He, which was an accident, Xin Zaozao was convinced that it was my mother’s and my doing, so she risked her life to resist us. And my mother thought that after the death of Xin He, all the assets of Xin family would be ours, but she didn’t expect that Xin He, who always disliked Xin Zaozao, would leave all his shares to Xin Zaozao, without leaving a penny to my mother. My mother collapsed completely, even I didn’t expect the result would be like this, so my mother and I were filled with extreme hatred, with Xin He gone, this hatred was all directed to Xin Zaozao.”

“Xin Zaozao also thought that Xin He’s death was our intentional murder, so the hatred that had been hidden in her heart for decades all erupted. Our war was about to begin. Alone, Xin Zaozao began to compete with us.” Mu Cidian said, “I was surprised that she could erupt with such great power. She could really march into Xin Group single-handedly. She could really develop step by step to her current position, while I was retracting more and more in this war. I didn’t want to see Xin Zaozao suppressing herself making herself completely different. So, I chose to give up.”

Ji Baili looked at Mu Cidian.

He did not expect that Mu Cidian actually had feelings for Xin Zaozao.

He had never noticed that Mu Cidian had feelings for Xin Zaozao.

Was this man deceiving him, or was he really good at hiding his feelings to the point that he could deceive himself into believing that he didn’t like Xin Zaozao.

Ji Baili said, “Since you chose to give up, why are you still doing things to hurt Xin Zaozao! You can’t stand to see her living well, can you?!”

“The engagement banquet video wasn’t released by me, but by my mother,” Mu Cidian said.

At that moment, Ji Baili inexplicably believed him.

“However, in the end, I let her go. I didn’t really do anything to her. I can’t offer Xin Zaozao any happiness. All I can offer her is her endless disgust for me! I really didn’t expect that the video would be recorded by my mother and become the culprit of your engagement banquet,” Mu Cidian declared.

Ji Baili’s expression became gloomy again.

Thinking of what happened at the engagement banquet that day made him wish he could kill Wan Quan and Mu Cidian.

He said grimly, “Mu Cidian, do you know what Xin Zaozao went through because of that video? Do you know how she faced my parents’ interrogations and pressure alone? You probably don’t know that Xin Zaozao, to make up for me, willingly clarified our family’s relationship with the reporters and willing to trade the Xin Group shares, which are so important to her, with my father! Mu Cidian, no matter what you do in this life, you can never make up for the harm you’ve done to Xin Zaozao!”

“I understand that, which is why I came to find you,” Mu Cidian replied.

He was aware of his cruel past and knew that there would be no possibility between them anymore. He did not hold any delusions about Xin Zaozao harboring any feelings for him, but he hoped that her path ahead would at least be less arduous.

“Ji Baili, I’m telling you all this today because I want you to know about Xin Zaozao’s past, to let you know that she is not careless. All she has endured is because of the hurt I’ve caused her! If it matters to you, I can leave. I swear to never return to Jin City! I even bought a plane ticket today, ready to leave. I left my mother in a game of chess with Xin Zaozao, knowing very well that my mother couldn’t beat Xin Zaozao now. The moment when my mother finally gives up, I will come back for her. If it wasn’t for what happened today, I would have left.”

Ji Baili pressed his lips together, saying nothing.

“I hope that you could reconcile with Xin Zaozao. I know this may be difficult for you, and I understand the pressure your parents must be putting on you, but I hope you won’t give up on Xin Zaozao. She deserves your love, and she would even return your love doubly, as long as you give each other one more chance. I believe you won’t regret your efforts now,” Mu Cidian said.

With certainty, Mu Cidian answered, “Yes! I have never seen Xin Zaozao smile at anyone like she does at you. I admit I’m jealous because since she turned 18, Xin Zaozao never smiled in front of me again. However, at least I know that Xin Zaozao has someone she likes, and that’s enough for me. As for me… I’m not worthy.”

Indeed, he could completely disappear, never to be seen again!

Ji Baili’s expression was icy, “You really aren’t worthy.”

Indeed he wasn’t worthy of Xin Zaozao’s emotions.

He said, “Take care of yourself and never approach Xin Zaozao again!”

“Fine.” Mu Cidian agreed immediately.

“But,” Ji Baili stood up from his seat and said, “Impossible between Xin Zaozao and me anymore.” Mu Cidian watched him, holding back his emotions.

“Xin Zaozao vowed in front of my parents that she’ll never be with me again…” Thinking about this hurt Ji Baili’s heart.

Even though he knew everything Xin Zaozao did was for him, he still found it hard to accept.

In Xin Zaozao’s eyes, their feelings for each other couldn’t compare to even the slightest ripple from the outside world.

The only thing he cared about was just this.

“I will talk to your parents.” Mu Cidian said with certainty.

He had thought it through.

The pressure for Ji Baili and Xin Zaozao’s breakup must have come from Ji Baili’s family.

He first sought out Ji Baili because he wanted to clarify his relationship with Xin Zaozao and remove any obstacles between them. After that, he would explain everything to Ji Baili’s parents..